Even before the cold weather hit, Walsgrave Hospital was at crisis point having repeatedly missed its A&E waiting times for the past few years, the fact is we’ve had a very mild winter and still the hospital was forced to cancel appointments and operations.

A significant contributing factor is our creaking adult social care system. Elderly people are increasingly ending up in A&E as a result of insufficient care at home, and hospitals are struggling to discharge them for the same reason.

The root cause of this is the savage cuts to council funding. Since 2010, government funding for local authorities reduced by 40 per cent in real terms.

Councils have done their best to protect the most vulnerable, but with care making up a significant proportion of total spending and with the sheer scale of the cuts forced on councils, protecting this area has proved impossible.

A few years ago, I asked the council if I could have block paving so my family could visit me as I am house bound.

They said yes, go ahead, so I did and a few months after, they put traffic lights in front of my house for students to cross to the university.

I then contacted the council and asked if I could have a dropped pavement and they said no because of the crossing.

To cut a long story short, all of the medical nurses and ambulance staff can’t find and place to park because of people with permits and double yellow lines.

My carer does my shopping, washing and cleaning and also says it is awful that there is no place to park.

There are three council boxes in front of my house as well and men come to check them and park on the grass.

I am 81 years of age, not in good health as I’ve had three bypasses, got angina, arthritis, diabetes and several other things. I don’t want to move, but would like the lights moved.

Most people cross further up the road anyway. I’ve got a photo of the lights being put in after my blocking.

Doris Allsop, Canley, Coventry

I read with interest and totally agree with the letters by P Wilson and MT Hancock concerning Camelot’s disgraceful running of the National Lottery.

Camelot was awarded the National Lottery in 1994. But what is not commonly known is that Toronto-based Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan bought Camelot for a reported £389 million in 2010.

Interestingly, Ontario Teachers’ also owns a substantial portfolio of assets including 100 per cent of Bristol Airport and minority stakes in Birmingham Airport, Copenhagen Airport and Brussels Airport, the HS1 rail line linking London with the Channel Tunnel and international water and power utilities.

I wonder therefore whether profits from the UK’s National Lottery are being used to finance a pension fund in Canada. A disgrace if it is.

Derrick Oldham, Foleshill, Coventry

Well done David Cameron, securing a deal with the European Union. Britain will pay millions of pounds (money desperately needed by The National Health Service) to stay in the Union.

Parliament will have the power to block, cancel and repeal laws that we never wanted in the first place. Brilliant! Roll on Brexit.